Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
11772
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/01/1989  
Date of Amendment
 
Name of Property
Great Western Chambers  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot  
Community
Neath  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
275173  
Northing
197721  
Street Side
 
Location
On the street line at the confluence of Croft Road and Angel Street with Bridge Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Early-mid C19. 3 storey, 3 window, whitewashed roughcast, plaster plinth. Hipped slate roof, boarded eaves brick end stacks. Shallow upper-sashes to 12 pane second floor windows, plain reveals, stone sills continuous sillband. Eight small panes to upper sash of first floor windows, glazing bars removed to lower sashes, continuous sillband. Late C19 canted oriel window centre, fishscale slate roof, cambered heads to sash windows, ogee bracket. Ground floor windows larger but similar to first floor. Central round arched recessed doorway. Classical doorcase, dentilled open pediment, torus moulded pilasters, fluted capitals. Panelled door, segmental fanlight. A symmetric 2 window elevation to E. Similar fenestration to front, first floor windows offset to left. Blocked central doorway to ground floor. Sill bands, plinth. Two , 2 light casement windows to first floor of W end elevation. Modern fenestration to second floor at rear. Twelve pane sash window and 30 pane sash stair window to first floor. Twelve pane sash to ground floor, other modern cut doors and windows.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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